And the question which Kent found it impossible to answer was, had Marette Radisson really gone down the river on that scow?
It was almost with a feeling of disappointment that he told himself it was possible she had not.

He wanted her on the river.

He wanted her going north and still farther north.

The thought that she was mixed up in some affair that had to do with Kedsty was displeasing to him.

If she was still in the Landing or near the Landing, it could no longer be on account of Sandy McTrigger, the man his confession had saved.